Improvement in hat and manure-forks



site mile-5' EDWIN MOORE,'OF BROOKLYN, E. D., NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 92,989, elated July 27, 1869.

l ww- IMPROVEMENT IN HAY AND MANURlEl-IORKS.

The Schedule referre'd to in these Letters Patentrand making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN MOORE, of Brooklyn, E. D., in the -county of Kings, and 'State of New York,have invented and made an Improvement in Hay and Manure-Forks; and I do hereby declare. the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l is a section ofthe end of the handle and the shank of the tines, and

Figure 2 is a cross-section, at the line :c x.

Hay and manure-forks have before been made with tines that could be removed. .v These tines, however, were inserted from outside the ferrule, and were not held in by the handle itself, but by a tine, passing in -om the outside, or a wedge. In this case the press-y ure upon the handle, when the fork was in use, did not aid in tightening the tines.

The nature of my said invention consists in a fork with inovable tines, the Shanks of which tines are wider at the back end than 'toward the base ,of the tine itself, so that the shanks of said tines forni' wedges, that are driven forward in the ferrnle, and tightened therein by vthe handle, against an end plate, upon which handle the ends of the shanks rest, whereby the strain to which the fork is subjected when in use tends to tighten the tines within the ferrule, and pref ventsthem working loose.

a is a'metal fer-rule, forming a tapering socket, t0 receive the end of the wooden handle l), and at the end of the ferrule is a mortise, of the size and shape to receive the Shanks c l e of the Lines fg h.

The Shanks o fl e are all wedge-formed, and the shanks c and e are first introduced into the mortise at the end of the ferrule b, and then the straight, or nearly straight tine g and its shank d are introduced; said shank being of a wedge forni on two sides, is driven rnily in between o and e, so as to hold them in place.

At the end of the handle b a shield, t', may be applied, to prevent the tine g becoming loose, from heilig driven backward when in use.

It` will be' understood that the tines are kept into their mortise, in the socket a, by the end of the handle b, and that the force exerted upon the handle, when in use, is .transmitted directly to the bases' of the shauks of the tines, and the tendency, when in use, is' to tighten thetines in the socket; hence, said tines will always remain rmly in their'socket.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The movable tines, with Shanks that are wider at Y their back end than toward Vthe front part of the Shanks, so as to be retained within the metal socket by the handle, in the manner set forth.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signatlne, this 11th day of March, A. I). 1869.

' EDWIN MOORE.

Witnesses CHAs. H. SMITH, GEO. T. IINCKNEY. 

